Purpose

To promote innovative research aimed at understanding and mitigating the biological and environmental factors that adversely affect insect pollinators.

Key aims

To provide an evidence base to inform the conservation of wild insect pollinators and to improve the husbandry of managed species, in order to avoid the potentially catastrophic loss of the ecosystem services they provide

To provide a basis for reducing current declines and sustaining healthy and diverse populations of pollinating insects for the future

The initiative aligns with several of LWEC’s 6 strategic objectives, in particular, those concerned with the implications of: